Playwright’s Playground Short Play Festival
Fall Festival: October 4-5, 2024
Spring Festival: March 28-29, 2025
During the Playwright’s Playground, your team will create, write, rehearse, and perform an original piece of theatre inspired by the prompts revealed on Friday night. Performances will begin at 7 pm on the following Saturday.
24-hours to write and perform an original play! That sounds like a challenge…Writing a musical in 24-hours…That sounds like a calling! The festival pushed me to write a musical like show and memorize it as well, and we did it! Getting to do what you love with people you consider family is a win-win for me.
Tyler Bueno, Rebel’s Guild Theatre
Registration
Create your own team and join the DOTS community to create a original piece of theatre inspired by the prompts.
Registration fee is $50 per TEAM to help cover the cost of the use of the facility and a dedicated light and sound technician to support you and your team during your technical rehearsal and performance.
The process
Teams will be given a prompt and items to use in the creation of the performance during the Kick Off meeting Friday night and time and space to create an original performance. Saturday, teams will return to the Judy for a staging and technical rehearsal in the Performance space. Details regarding the technical and performance schedule will be available at the Friday night Kick Off!
Tell Your Story
Curtain for Playwright’s Playground: 7 pm in the Reynolds Auditorium. Tickets are $10 per person general admission. Purchase tickets in advance or at the door.
advice for teams
Come with and open mind and no preconceived notions of what your performance might be.
Be open to the possibilities that exist from the prompt.
bonus opportunities
Audience Favorites will be invited to perform as a part of the DOTS Fringe Festival in July 2026!
More information
IF more than eight teams register to participate in the Playwright’s Playground Short Play Festival, additional teams will be placed on a waiting list.
Please join us as a creative artist, audience member, and support of theatre.
I love the energy of creating something original in a finite amount of time! You have to learn to trust your gut, your ensemble, and your creative instincts. The bonus are the friends you make along the way! I can’t wait for our next short play festival! Let’s go!
Dr. Gretchen Teague
Thank you
Special thank you to our partner Springfield Little Theatre Education Department for allowing us space to create and perform!
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